Nostalgia Ink

The only known postcard of Brislington by Nostalgia Ink contains a couple of clues about its origins that only become lucid when those origins are known.

Nostalgia Ink published a range of books of postcards selected to represent a period in history not so long ago. Some subjects were large enough to warrant more than one book: "The Glory of Steam" for instance, for the connoisseur, contains a rich variety of topics, one being "The Great Western Region". Those phrases in quotation marks - the title and subtitle of the book respectively - appear on the back of the postcard.

The acknowledgements section of the book unpacks another inscrutable item on the postcard - LOCOFOTOS - which is a trading name of Gordon Coltas whose photographs illustrate the book (which is to say, they're on the front of the twenty-two postcards in this volume). The author of this book, which its ISBN (1 85925 102 1) indicates was published in 2009, is Cliff Hayes.


Brislington postcard